How to Stay Healthy While On the Road
Healthy eating typically falls to the bottom of the list, but it’s surprisingly easy to stay healthy on the road with only a little bit of work.
Driving a truck day after day means worrying about tons of things—whether it’s traffic, how much weight you’re hauling, or whether or not you’ll reach your destination on time. Healthy eating typically falls to the bottom of the list, but it’s surprisingly easy to stay healthy on the road with only a little bit of work. Here are some of the best ways to keep healthy habits while you’re on the road.
Have a Big Breakfast and Small Dinner
Think of your day as an upside down pyramid and apply that to your eating habits. Have a large breakfast to fill you up and give you the fuel that you need to get through the day. Follow that up with a medium-sized healthy lunch to boost you and help keep you powering through rush hour. Your dinner should be the smallest meal of the day so that you won’t be kept awake by a grumbling tummy or a digesting tummy.
Put a Stop to Soda
Drinking water instead of soda is one of the easiest and best healthy habits you can learn. Soda is full of sugar, and taking in large amounts of sugar in liquid for confuses your stomach, which was expecting those sugars in a digestible solid form. If you switch from soda or water, your stomach will be less hungry throughout the day and get better at digesting the food that you eat.
Prepare Yourself to Be Healthy
Preparation is one of the best ways to stay healthy while you are on the road. Plan out some meals in advance that are easy to prepare in a crockpot while on the road and then let your dinner cook while you are driving through breakfast and lunch! By making your food yourself, you are also the one in control of fat content, salt added, and sugar added to the final product. This is a great and easy way to cut costs and cut some weight.
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